Highlight Events
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Score! Chix Mix Circuit Party
Curve Magazine and Chix Mix Productions presents Score, a dance party for women in the heart of Chicago's gay neighborhood.
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The DaVinci GayCode-10th Anniversary Edition
America's funniest Gay and Lesbian Sketch Comedy troupe celebrates ten years of queer comedy by performing their favorite scenes and songs from the past ten years.
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SWEAT - on the field, on the floor
GYM Sports Bar NYC bar presents SWEAT at Chicago's Metro.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Queer Tale
Four lovers in search of sexual freedom discover orgiastic dances, queens and love-inducing pills in this new take on Shakespeare's romance.
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Tutankhamun & the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
On November 26, 1922, the tomb of King Tutankhamun was discovered, unlocking the most precious treasures the world had ever known. Throughout the late 70’s, millions of Americans marveled at the treasures of King Tut in an unprecedented museum exhibition. After nearly 30 years, King Tut’s treasures return to America one last time in Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs.
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Oasis: An installation by Guerra de la Paz
Oasis is a site-specific sculptural installation fashioned out of discarded clothing to create a fantasy landscape.
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Robert Rainey: Family Self Portrait Series
South Carolina-based photographer Robert Rainey explores the notion of the American family unit today by interjecting himself into family portraits, and substituting himself for different family members.
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Art of the Sensual
The art of Luis Fernando Uribe, through vivid colors, entwining forms, and overt subject, has the disarming quality of being deeply erotic without necessarily being directly sexual. His work has been sold to many prominent private collections, as well as, to the the Latin American Art Museum (Long Beach, CA), Museum of Bellas Artes (Medellin, Colombia), the Bellas Artes Museum (Caracas, Venezuela), and the DeYoung Museum (San Fransisco, CA).
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101 Talismans for a Happy Death
The late Chicago Artist Joseph Conlon's series 101 Talismans for a Happy Death will be on display at Aron Packer Gallery. Conlon, who was HIV positive for over 20 years, created the work in the last five years of his life and passed away in 2005.
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Journey Along the Silk Road: Rainbow Visions
Embark on a musical voyage along the Silk Road with this series of free lunchtime concerts. Performances range from traditional Iranian music to the passionate Flamenco dance of Spain and more!
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Out of the Closet
Out of the Closet, Lisa Nordstrom and guest artists, from bowling balls, luggage, altered clothing and board games to life-altering proclamations and secrets big and small, this mixed media group show features all manner of things formerly closeted.
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Chicago SummerDance
Chicago SummerDance is an eleven-week festival featuring one-hour dance lessons by professional dance instructors, followed by two hours of live music and dancing.
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Grant Park Music Festival
Join the GRAMMY-nominated Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus as they celebrate their 72nd annual season in their new permanent home – the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park. Presented by the Chicago Park District, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and Grant Park Orchestral Association, the Grant Park Music Festival is the nation’s only remaining free municipally-supported outdoor classical music series.
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BareNaked Lads in the Great Outdoors
From the opening number that introduces six naked singers with their (clothed) female cohort, to a beautifully sung finale that celebrates the human body in all its imperfections, BARENAKED LADS is an upbeat and engertic evening full of colorful characters.
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The Home Project
For seven years, About Face has created its most powerful, innovative, and celebrated work in collaboration with Chicago's extraordinary community of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trangender) young people. Our audience jumps to its feet in joyful recognition each season at the curtain call of the Youth Theatre production.
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PINS
Jim Provenzano's electrifying novel about two high school wrestlers coming of age is brought to exciting life on-stage as Bailiwick celebrates Chicago's Gay Games!
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The Champion Zone, DJ David Knapp
Circuit Nightclub, ABSOLUT Vodka, Centaur Music and Subaru are pleased to announce The Champion Zone during the Chicago Gay Games Thursday, July 13 through Friday, July 21 from 5pm-9pm.The Champion Zone will feature an international roster of highlyacclaimed Music Artists and special star studded fund raiser forGLAAD.
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Gay Games at Night: Olympus
Hydrate Events takes over the largest nightclub in Chicago and turns it into a spectacular celebration of sound, lights and performance! Excalibur/Vision Nightclubs connect to offer multiple rooms and levels, including two dance floors, dramatic VIP lounges and more! The 4-story tall dance space adds to the drama of an evening that features some of the best talent in the world! The "Sky Room" will feature ROSABEL (Ralphi Rosario and DJ Abel) with a live performance by CRYSTAL WATERS. The "Dome Room" will feature DJ's DAVID KNAPP & ALYSON CALAGNA. There will be multiple performances, surprises and more!
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Daily Events - Everyday in Gay Chicago
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What's popular on Fridays?
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Hot male dancers at 10 p.m.; DJ Eric Hall; $5 martini special
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POP goes the Gio at 9 p.m.
DJ Scotty Styles & Friends
$5 Cocktails
$1 Original grilled cheese sandwiche's (After Midnight)
Baton Show Lounge
Shows 8:30 p.m., 10:30 p.m., 12:30 a.m.
Cosmix: DJ Greg Haus, electro, progressive, and alternative, $5 after 11:00 p.m.
DJ and dancing 10 p.m., no cover, 1/3 lb cheeseburger $5, $3 basket of appetizers (zucchini, mushroom, onion rings, poppers)
Karaoke w/ Creagh 9:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.
Broadway Youth Center
6PM-9PM: Friday Drop In, A safe space for youth, includes education and support groups, anonymous HIV testing and medical care.
Bucks Saloon
$10 Miller pitchers, $2 Schnapps
Cell Block
Open 4 p.m. w/ Giani, DJ Hale
Line dance lessons at 7 p.m., country with DJ Michael B ‘til 1:30 a.m., Afterhours dance with DJ LuLu
Chicago Eagle
8PM-4AM: $2 house shots; cage dancers; club room opens at 11PM with Brian.
Club Krave
$12 oversized Long Island, Blue Island, Vodka Lemonade/Cranberry Pitchers, DJ Rockin’ RC
Go-go boys, DJ Freddie Bain, hosted by Chicago’s very own Cher (1st and last weeks), $12 Long Island pitchers, $5 Jägerbombs
Crew Bar & Grill
P.B.R. Cans $2.00, Goose Island Honkers pints $3.50, Fish Tacos w/choice of side $9.50, 4th Friday-Frat Boy Friday, w/ Hot Jock Contest at 11:30 p.m.
Encompass
Karaoke, $4 24 oz. Big Boy Lites
Geja's Cafe
Geja’s Café’s South African Wine Festival. Guests of Geja’s Café, 340 W. Armitage, will enjoy many flavorful wines from South Africa during the fondue restaurant’s South African Wine Festival from September 1-November 30, 2009.
Halsted's Bar and Grill
$5 Stoli mixed & bombs, $12 Bud Light/Miller Lite pitchers
Hideaway
Karaoke by Creaoke, Chicago Beef Dancers
Hunters
Video Dance Party, $2 Miller, $4 cover, DJ Dan
Hydrate
TPAN’s Positively Aware party 8-11 p.m. on 2nd Friday of the month, Weekly DJs til 4 a.m., no cover til midnight
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InnExile
Here’s the Beef male dancers 11 p.m.
Jackhammer
Chicago Beef dancers 1-3 a.m., 4th Fri.-The Flesh Hungry Dog Show, $2 import bottles
Jeffrey Pub
Guys All Night Out dance party, $3 cover
Little Jim's
NOON-4AM: $6 pitchers of MGD and Miller Lite.
Lucky Horseshoe
Male dancers 4pm-2am.
Manhandler
$2 cactus juice/kool-ade/schnapps; "Jeopardy" 3:30pm; "Wheel of Fortune" 6:30pm.
Man's Country
Live male strippers
Mary's Attic
Bailiwick’s “Bombs Away” cabaret at 7 p.m., $15; Feel Good Fridays with Rogue DJ at 9 p.m., $3 Bama-Slamma shots & 5-for-4 buckets of domestic bottles, no cover
Minibar Ultra Lounge and Cafe
9PM - 2AM Featuring: DJ Shawn Edwards and HOT Bartenders
5:30PM-11PM: Cornelia's now features live music 7 nights a week; Ginger Tam performs
Roscoe's Tavern
$14 Absolut pink lemonade pitchers, $6 Bacardi bombs, $3 off Martinis/Manhattans
Showtunes 5-9 p.m., Best of Sidetrack 9 p.m. - 2 a.m.
Spin Nightclub
Shower contest, 1st week: Boy night; 2nd week: Girl night; 3rd week: Bear night, $150 first prize, sign up by 11:30 p.m., contest at midnight, $5 Absolut cocktails, $4 Magic Hat #9 drafts, DJ Luis M, go-go boys, $5 Absolut cocktails, $7 Martinis, $4 draft beer
Star Gaze
ALTERNATING WEEKS: ‘80s/’90s Urban Night with DJ XL and DJ Marshall Jones; Salsa Night with DJ Castro and free salsa lessons
Temptations Nightclub
Frisky Fridays Dance Party with DJ MissBHaven Beth, Chicago's Largest & Hottest Women's Dance Party, No Cover from 6-8:30pm
The Call
Retro video (‘50s-‘70s) at 5:30 p.m., dance video mix at 8:30 p.m.
1st week - MAFIA; 2nd week - Full Moon party and contest; 3rd week - ONYX Club night, Club Room open at 10 p.m.
Velvet Rope
Karaoke with Creagh, $6 Grey Goose, $3 domestic
Wang's
Think Pink Friday's with DJ Stinky Pinky
Wild Pug
$3 Fuller’s London Pride pints, VJ Bobby Marley at 7 p.m.
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